Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
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Spiralling Stars Captured By The Hubble Space Telescope
Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...
Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Sergio McKenzie Named NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CIO
Sergio McKenzie, a 25-year IT veteran, has been appointed as chief information officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ...
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Saturn's Rings Had Strange Seasonal Spokes - Hubble To Study
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
NASA Reveals Shocking Human Impact on Earth’s Water Cycle
NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by ...
In NASA asteroid samples, scientists discover key building blocks of life
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
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Sergio McKenzie, a 25-year IT veteran, has been appointed as chief information officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. “ [I’m] truly honored for ...